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Visa unleashes AI shopping agents
PLUS: Claude rolled out web search to more users
Jason Nguyen
May 02, 2025
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Good morning, AI enthusiasts. Visa just launched its Intelligent Commerce platform, enabling AI agents to shop and make purchases based on user preferences while integrating with its massive payment infrastructure.
With this development, are we witnessing the next evolution of commerce that could fundamentally transform how consumers interact with brands and retailers?
In Today’s AI Daily:
Visa unleashes AI agents that can shop and pay on your behalf
Pinterest adds clear labels to identify AI-modified content platform-wide
Claude connects to your apps and conducts 45-minute deep research
New AI tools & prompts
LATEST DEVELOPMENTS
VISA
Image source: Visa
The AI Daily: Visa just launched its Intelligent Commerce platform, which lets AI agents shop and buy things for you based on your preferences. This opens up Visa’s payment system to AI developers building new shopping tools.
Key notes:
Visa is working with big names like Anthropic, Microsoft, OpenAI, and Samsung.
It uses digital tokens instead of real card numbers to keep payments safe.
Shoppers can set spending limits and rules for what AI agents can buy.
Visa is using its years of fraud protection experience to keep these new payments secure.
It tracks purchases in real time to stop fraud and help with problems.
Why it matters: As AI shopping assistants become more popular, Visa is building the tools to keep those payments safe and trusted. Just like we moved from stores to websites, then to phones, now we’re moving to AI-driven shopping—and Visa wants to be the backbone that makes it all work.
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Image source: Pinterest
The AI Daily: Pinterest has launched a new feature that labels AI-generated or modified images across its platform, helping users identify content created with artificial intelligence tools.
Key notes:
Images that were changed or created by AI will show an “AI modified” label in the bottom left corner.
Pinterest uses special AI tools to detect these images, even if there are no clear signs.
If a user thinks their image was labeled by mistake, they can file an appeal.
Soon, users will be able to choose to see fewer AI images in certain areas like beauty and art.
The system will keep getting better over time as Pinterest improves how it finds AI content.
Why it matters: AI-made images are getting harder to tell apart from real ones. Pinterest wants to make things more clear and honest by adding labels and giving users more control over what they see. This helps keep trust while still allowing room for AI creativity.
AI BREAKTHROUGHS
ANTHROPIC
Image source: Anthropic
The AI Daily: Anthropic just made big upgrades to its AI assistant, Claude. It can now connect to your favorite apps and do deep web research for up to 45 minutes, making it much better at understanding your work.
Key notes:
Claude now connects to tools like Atlassian, Linear, PayPal, and Zapier.
The new Research mode searches the web, Google Workspace, and connected apps.
Claude gives back detailed reports with clear citations to where the info came from.
These features are in beta for Max, Team, and Enterprise users (coming soon to Pro).
Web search is now live for all paying users around the world.
Why it matters: Claude is becoming more than just a chatbot. By linking to the tools you already use, it can understand your projects better and help with more complex work. This makes Claude feel like a true AI teammate, not just a helper on the side.
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Meta released Llama Guard 4 to help block harmful content in both text and image AI models, and launched Prompt Guard 2 to stop jailbreaks and prompt hacks.
Raycast launched its iOS app, bringing features like AI Chats, Notes, and voice commands to mobile.
Continue released Continue 1.0, an all-in-one hub that mixes open-source coding tools with custom AI assistants for programmers.
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